The 2023 Napa Pain Conference Faculty

The Napa Pain Conference attracts the best in interventional pain management, neurosurgery, orthopedics, psychology, and public policy.

Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD

Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry 2022

Marom Bikson, PhD

The City College of New York Shames Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Dan Brounstein

Chief Strategy Officer, Saluda

Taissa Cherry, MD

Director, Interventional Pain Medicine, Kaiser Permanente , San Francisco Medical Center

Steven P. Cohen, MD

Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Neurology and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Alex F. DaSilva, DDS, DMedSc

Tenured Professor Director, Learning Health Systems, Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI)

Rosana Esteller, PhD

R&D Associate Director & Fellow – Neuromodulation at Boston Scientific

Roger B. Fillingim, PhD

Distinguished Professor and Director, University of Florida

Christopher J. Gilligan, MD, MBA

Associate Chief Medical Officer, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Eric J. Grigsby, MD, MBA

Founder & CEO: Neurovations, a Patient Care and Innovation Company

Jennifer Hah, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Adult Pain), Stanford University

Eric Hudak, PhD

Program Director, HEAL Initiative, BRAIN Initiative, SPARC Program, and Translational Neural Devices, NIH

Melanie Johansson, MD, FACEP

Interventional Pain Physician

Hemant Kalia, MD

Program Director, Interventional Spine & Pain Fellowship Program, Rochester Regional Health

Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD, DABA, DABPM, DABIPP, FASA

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, LSU Health

Elliot S. Krames, MD

Pioneer & One of the Leading Experts in the Field of Intraspinal Analgesia, Co-founder on Neuromodulation: The Science Conference

Amy Kruse, Ph.D.

Chief Investment Officer, Satori Neuro

Nicholas Langhals, PhD

Program Director within the Division of Translational Research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Scott F. Lempka, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesiology Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center

Sten Lindahl, MD, PhD, FRCA

Chair Emeritus of the Nobel Committee in Physiology or Medicine

Sarah E. Mondello, PhD

Research Acting Instructor, Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington

Suraj Mudichintala

VC at Action Potential Venture Capital

Ramana Naidu, MD

Director of Acute Pain Services & Chair of the UCSF Pain Committee

Daniel W. Odell, MD

Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah

Jo Jo Platt

US Partnerships Lead, Corundum Neuroscience President, Platt & Associates, Inc.

Lawrence Poree, MD, PhD, MPH

Professor & Director of Neuromodulation Service, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco

Avinash Ramchandani, MD, MBA

Pain Management, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician, Redwood Pain Institute

Shalini Shah, MD, BSFS

UCI Vice Chair, Anesthesiology School of Medicine

Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Neurological Surgery and Neurology, UCSF

Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP

Chief Medical Officer, National Spine & Pain Centers

Carol A. Warfield, MD

Edward Lowenstein Distinguished Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Nolan Williams, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Stanford University

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Napa Pain Conference Symposium Speakers

2023 Faculty

The 2023 Napa Pain Conference Faculty

NTS @ NPC Faculty

Napa Pain Conference Symposium Speakers